This is what you look like after rolling logs down the hills of BC

Attractive, isn't it?

The most noticeable difference about the forests of BC (at least on Bowen Island, and as compared to Ontario) is that there are ferns everywhere. It's kind of like being in Jurassic Park.

Wearing two sweaters and a tuque to bed is adventuresome, but I have to admit I appreciate being back in the 'civilized' world, with central heating.

Riding the train across the country and spending a couple of weeks at a camp whose builings were (mostly) unheated, I spent quite a bit of time thinking about the hunter-gatherers — and even European homesteaders — who once lived here. It's kind of amazing they even were able to survive. There is still so much empty space in our country; it's weird how as our population has grown, the countryside has emptied out.